hunger

[hun·ger]

Hunger is the sensation of needing or wanting to eat something. People use the same word to describe a hankering for a snack or for the more dire meaning of starvation, as in "world hunger."

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An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.

Noun
strong desire for something (not food or drink); "a thirst for knowledge"; "hunger for affection"

Noun
a physiological need for food; the consequence of foood deprivation

Verb
be hungry; go without food; "Let''s eat--I''m starving!"

Verb
have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

Verb
feel the need to eat

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n.
An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.

n.
Any strong eager desire.

n.
To feel the craving or uneasiness occasioned by want of food; to be oppressed by hunger.

n.
To have an eager desire; to long.

v. t.
To make hungry; to famish.


Hunger

Hun"ger , n. [AS. hungor; akin to OFries. hunger, D. honger, OS. & OHG. hungar, G. hunger, Icel. hungr, Sw. & Dan. hunger, Goth. hhrus hunger, huggrjan to hunger.] 1. An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food. &hand; The sensation of hunger is usually referred to the stomach, but is probably dependent on excitation of the sensory nerves, both of the stomach and intestines, and perhaps also on indirect impressions from other organs, more or less exhausted from lack of nutriment. 2. Any strong eager desire.
O sacred hunger of ambitious minds!
For hunger of my gold I die.

Hunger

Hun"ger, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hungered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Hungering.] [OE. hungren, AS. hyngrian. See Hunger, n.] 1. To feel the craving or uneasiness occasioned by want of food; to be oppressed by hunger. 2. To have an eager desire; to long.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteouness.

Hunger

Hun"ger, v. t. To make hungry; to famish.

An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.

To feel the craving or uneasiness occasioned by want of food; to be oppressed by hunger.

To make hungry; to famish.

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Usage Examples

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

Hunger is the best pickle.

A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.

Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

Hunger is a political issue, and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry - not funding food stamps adequately, not funding school lunches adequately. So there is a political solution to the problem of hunger.

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Other Usage Examples

Healthy children are born from healthy, respected, well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imperative that they have a voice in the decisions which affect them. If you empower a mother and let her have her say towards a poverty-free future, the positive impact this would have on ending hunger will be immense.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness.

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

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